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Elsewhere for fun, events and art this weekend:
theater: ‘Driving Miss Daisy’
Argenta Community Theatre Stage “Driving Miss Daisy” Presented by Alfred Uhry at his new educational facility – “ACT II: Sharon Heflin Center for Performing Arts Education”, 315 Main Street, North Little Rock – this Saturday at 6:30pm and just now – Simple Drama, Tuesday through 11 7:30 p.m. May. 5. Judy Trice as Daisy Werthan, Drew Jansen as her son Boolie and Jeremiah Herman as Hoke, the driver he hired was her driver. For theatrical performances, doors open at 7:00 and tickets are $25.Call (501) 353-1443 or visit argentacommunitytheater.org.
Studio ’13’
After moving from New York to a small Indiana town, a teenager grapples with his parents’ divorce, prepares for an upcoming bar mitzvah and navigates the complex social circles of a new New York school. “13: The Musical” (Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn) Today-Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday and November 3-5 at 2:30pm and 7:30pm, Sunday and November 2:30 On stage. 6 At the Studio Theater, 320 West 7th Street, Little Rock.Admission is $25, students, seniors and military are $20 centralarkansastickets.com/venues/332/events. Some shows may be sold out.For more information, call (501) 374-2615 or visit studiotheatrelr.com.
Agatha Christie
Southeastern Arkansas Arts and Sciences Center Stage “Agatha’s Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express” Adapted by Ken Ludwig at the Adam B. Robinson Jr. Black Box Theatre at ART WORKS on Main, 627 S. Main St., today through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Pine Bluff. Sponsored by Simmons Bank. Tickets are $18, $13 for center members and seniors, and $10 for students.Call (870) 536-3375 or visit asc701.org/theater/murder-on-the-orient-express.
Ceci “Cinderella”
Harding University Stage “Cinderella” by Rogers and Hammerstein (New book by Douglas Carter Beane), Friday-Saturday at the Benson Auditorium, 201 Searcy S. Blakeney St., 8 p.m. After two performances, a meet-and-greet was held in the student center. The show is part of the College Homecoming weekend. Tickets are $18 and $20, $25 at the door.Call (501) 279-4276 or visit hardingtickets.com.
‘pride and Prejudice’
With six actors in more than 15 roles, the New York-based Aquila Theatre tour is based on Jane Austen’s “pride and Prejudice,” This 7 p.m. performance at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, 495 W. Dickson St., is part of the center’s 10×10 art series. Tickets are $10.Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Violinist Alexander Markov collaborated with the Conway Symphony on Sunday on shorter Romantic works and his own compositions for electric violin and orchestra. (Democratic Gazette special issue)
music: classic, electric
Violinist Alexander Markov played several shorter works for 19th century Romantic violin, as well as his own works for electronic violin and orchestra, with Conway Symphony Orchestra and conductor Israel Getzov will open the orchestra’s 38th season on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Reynolds Hall at the University of Central Arkansas at 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
Some of Markov’s shows include “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso” by Camille Saint-Saens; “Meditation” in “Thais” by Jules Massenet; the third part of “Summer” in Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” Movements “Presto”; “Zigeunerweisen” by Pablo de Sarasate; and excerpts from Markov’s “Caesar,” featuring his golden electric violin.
The orchestra will kick off the concert with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky’s “Night on the Bald Mountain”, with Ludwig Van Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5 in C minor”, op.67 ends.
Admission is $25-45, $10 for children with paying adults, free for UCA students with ID.Call (501) 450-3265 or visit conway symphony.org.
Markov is part of UCA’s Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences artist-in-residence programme, which will also include a recital at the Faculty’s Snow Fine Arts Recital Hall on Saturday at 7:30pm.
Art: “American Dirge”
“American Dirge in Black and White II: The Works of Madey Taylor” 18 mixed media works by Taylor, who now resides in Lake Village, Memphis, has a studio in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and is today at the Southeastern Arkansas Arts and Science Center at 701 S. Main William H. Kennedy Jr. Gallery Opening St., Pine Bluff. Taylor will be presenting receptions and artist talks on Fridays from 5-7pm.
The exhibit, which runs through February 24, is based on work by Taylor created in 2018; accompanying the artwork, according to the press release, is a work of poetry detailing the pain of black people being brought by boats and sold into slavery and suffering, which are related to biblical prophecy. Support for the exhibition comes from grants from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Admission to lectures and galleries is free. Gallery hours are 10am-5pm Tuesday-Friday and 10am-4pm Saturday.
Call (870) 536-3375, email khaynie@asc701.org or visit asc701.org.
comedy: royal comedian
Comedians Somore, Bruce Bruce, Arnez J and Ravel Crawford, in Royal Comedy 2022 Tour, will perform at the Simons Bank Arena in North Little Rock on Friday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $59 to $99, plus tax.access Ticketmaster.com.
Audition: Wrong way
The Southeast Arkansas Arts and Science Center at 701 S. Main St., Pine Bluff hosts auditions for teens 12 and older “Drama That Goes Wrong: High School Edition” By Henry Lewis, Henry Shields and Jonathan Sayer, November 12th 1-5pm and November 13th 2-6pm.Starting November 1st at asc701.org/auditions. Manufactured from 16th to 19th February.
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